“See him | stride
    Valleys | wide: 
    Over | woods,
    Over | floods,
    When he | treads,
    Mountains’ | heads
    Groan and | shake: 
    Armies | quake,
    Lest his | spurn
    Over | -turn
    Man and | steed: 
    Troops, take | heed! 
    Left and | right
    Speed your | flight! 
    Lest an | host
    Beneath | his foot | be lost.

    III.

    “Turn’d a | -side
    From his | hide,
    Safe from | wound,
    Darts re | -bound. 
    From his | nose,
    Clouds he | blows;
    When he | speaks,
    Thunder | breaks! 
    When he | eats,
    Famine | threats! 
    When he | drinks,
    Neptune | shrinks! 
    Nigh thy | ear,
    In mid | air,
    On thy | hand,
    Let me | stand. 
    So shall | I
    (Lofty | poet!) touch the sky.” 
        JOHN GAY:  Johnson’s British Poets, Vol. vii, p. 376.

Example III.—­Two Feet with Four.

   “Oh, the | pleasing, | pleasing | anguish,
    When we | love, and | when we | languish! 
        Wishes | rising! 
        Thoughts sur | -prising! 
        Pleasure | courting! 
        Charms trans | -porting! 
        Fancy | viewing
        Joys en | -suing! 
    Oh, the | pleasing, | pleasing | anguish!”
        ADDISON’S Rosamond, Act i, Scene 6.

Example IV.—­Lines of Three Syllables with Longer Metres.

1.  WITH TROCHAICS.

   “Or we | sometimes | pass an | hour
      Under | a green | willow,
    That de | -fends us | from the | shower,
      Making | earth our | pillow;
        Where we | may
        Think and | pray,
        B=e’fore | death
        Stops our | breath: 
        Other | joys,
        Are but | toys,
      And to | be la | -mented.” [515]

2.  WITH IAMBICS.

   “What sounds | were heard,
    What scenes | appear’d,
    O’er all | the drear | -y coasts! 
        Dreadful | gleams,
        Dismal | screams,
        Fires that | glow,
        Shrieks of | wo,
        Sullen | moans,
        Hollow | groans,
      And cries | of tor | -tur’d ghosts!”
        POPE:  Johnson’s Brit.  Poets, Vol. vi, p. 315.

Example V.—­“The Shower.”—­In Four Regular Stanzas.

    1.

    “In a | valley | that I | know—­
        Happy | scene! 
    There are | meadows | sloping | low,
    There the | fairest | flowers | blow,
    And the | brightest | waters | flow. 
        All se | -rene;
    But the | sweetest | thing to | see,
    If you | ask the | dripping | tree,
    Or the | harvest | -hoping | swain,
        Is the | Rain.

    2.